Friday, January 30, 2004, 2:24:25 AM, Jesper Haure Norrevang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
JHN> Certainly som conversion is going on here. This might be the reason why
JHN> there has been confusion about 7 or 8 bytes in a DATE datatype.
That's really interesting, that switch between 7 and 8
bytes. Oracle's docs, I believe in the OCI manual, do show a
seven-byte format.
JHN> To answer your question, it is possible to deal with fractions of seconds,
JHN> byt you need to use the TIMESTAMP datatype. The function SYSTIMESTAMP could
JHN> be useful. Be aware that Oracle supports 9 decimals, but not all hardware
JHN> platforms do.
Related to this, just because a platform returns, say, six
digits, does not mean it increments on that last digit.
Instead of:
21.000001 seconds
21.000002 seconds
...
The best your platform does might look like:
21.000001 seconds
21.000801 seconds
21.001601 seconds
...
I just made these numbers up, but hopefully they give the
idea.
I'm still curious about that seven versus eight byte thing
with SYSDATE.
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